A hack for DHS?

So Rudi Giuliani made Bernie Kerik, his high-school dropout police driver, first the Corrections Commissioner and then the Police Commissioner. (This was years after Giuliani fired Bill Bratton for insufficient obsequity.) Kerik’s past included being the morals enforcer for a big Saudi hospital.

Kerik became an icon after 9-11 not for anything in particular he did, but for looking and sounding the part of a tough cop. He seems to have messed up the job of training the Iraqi police miserably; no one has quite explained why he left that job so quickly.

I know Kerik is popular in New York, which makes Schumer and Clinton unwilling to challenge him. But is there really no Senate Democrat willing to point out that putting this highly politicized mediocrity in charge of homeland security is a disgustingly sick joke? Or that firing an aggressive Inspector General isn’t really the right way to improve organizational performance?